Re: [Emc-users] Compact Flash card for Hard Drive

2009-11-23 Thread Leslie Newell
Hi Kirk, You must be very lucky. I have a whole stack of dead drives. When a hard drive fails it is very often catastrophic failure and you lose everything. One day it's working fine, the next day it won't boot. With Flash if you do get a failure it is likely to only be a few bits which can

Re: [Emc-users] Compact Flash card for Hard Dr ive

2009-11-23 Thread Евгений Александрович
Hi Kirk, You must be very lucky. I have a whole stack of dead drives. When a hard drive fails it is very often catastrophic failure and you lose everything. One day it's working fine, the next day it won't boot. Hello Guys, I use 1Gb DOM Flash as main HDD. System does work more that one

[Emc-users] Beginning with HAL

2009-11-23 Thread Adriano Gonçalves
Hello all, I have some experience in CNC robotics, but im really new to HAL structure. Im developing a servo driver, with will get the samples from the encoders and send them to the parallel port in packages, and also will get the duty cycle information from the parallel port and send it to the

Re: [Emc-users] Compact Flash card for Hard Drive

2009-11-23 Thread Andy Pugh
Just as another data point, many of the Netbooks come with a solid state drive, and most are running some form of linux too. An example would be the Asus EePC, for which Crucial suggest the following: http://www.crucial.com/uk/store/mpartspecs.aspx?mtbpoid=255C2650A5CA7304 -- atp

Re: [Emc-users] How Exactly does a Mister Work

2009-11-23 Thread Kenneth Lerman
I have some ruby orifices measuring -- two sizes 11.5 and 26 thousandths. They are set in brass cylinders measuring .125 by .125 with a slight tapered end. They also have stainless steel screens to keep them from clogging. I usually press fit them into a reamed hole. I can spare a few if Gene

[Emc-users] Deadband, FF1 and FF2

2009-11-23 Thread Pat Lyons
Hello- I'm having some difficulty tuning my P, I, and D variables. I've used PID before in school, and understand how they are calculated, but I wanted to ask about the three terms I don't really understand... I found in the wiki these explanations: *FF1 = 2.000 a velocity feedforward, helps

[Emc-users] Deadband, FF1 and FF2 (cont'd)

2009-11-23 Thread Pat Lyons
Also- if you guys dont mind- please gimme an Idea of what you have these variables set to and what kinda results they gave you. Thanks again!!! -Pat -- Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008

Re: [Emc-users] Deadband, FF1 and FF2

2009-11-23 Thread Leslie Newell
FF1 adds a percentage of the commanded velocity to the output. Ideally in a steady state FF1 should be high enough that P doesn't have to do anything. FF2 adds a percentage of the commanded acceleration to the output. Ideally FF2 should be high enough that D doesn't do anything. Basically they

Re: [Emc-users] Deadband, FF1 and FF2

2009-11-23 Thread Jeff Epler
Basically, at no load, a servo amplifier has a characteristic relationship between the voltage in and the velocity. If the relationship is (close to) linear, then FF1 will give an approximately correct speed even before specifying P, I, D. On an inch machine, if you set the OUTPUT_SCALE so that

Re: [Emc-users] Beginning with HAL

2009-11-23 Thread yann jautard
Le lundi 23 novembre 2009 11:16:14, Adriano Gonçalves a écrit : Hello all, I have some experience in CNC robotics, but im really new to HAL structure. Im developing a servo driver, with will get the samples from the encoders and send them to the parallel port in packages, and also will get

Re: [Emc-users] Beginning with HAL

2009-11-23 Thread Chris Radek
On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 08:16:14AM -0200, Adriano Gon?alves wrote: Im developing a servo driver, with will get the samples from the encoders and send them to the parallel port in packages, and also will get the duty cycle information from the parallel port and send it to the motors. Several

Re: [Emc-users] How Exactly does a Mister Work

2009-11-23 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 23 November 2009, Kenneth Lerman wrote: I have some ruby orifices measuring -- two sizes 11.5 and 26 thousandths. They are set in brass cylinders measuring .125 by .125 with a slight tapered end. They also have stainless steel screens to keep them from clogging. I usually press fit them

Re: [Emc-users] Beginning with HAL

2009-11-23 Thread Jon Elson
Adriano Gonçalves wrote: Hello all, I have some experience in CNC robotics, but im really new to HAL structure. Im developing a servo driver, with will get the samples from the encoders and send them to the parallel port in packages, and also will get the duty cycle information from the

Re: [Emc-users] Deadband, FF1 and FF2

2009-11-23 Thread Jon Elson
Pat Lyons wrote: Hello- I'm having some difficulty tuning my P, I, and D variables. I've used PID before in school, and understand how they are calculated, but I wanted to ask about the three terms I don't really understand... I found in the wiki these explanations: *FF1 = 2.000 a

[Emc-users] Halscope interpretation

2009-11-23 Thread Richard Arthur
Looking at a plot in halscope, I was expecting the difference between coarse-position-command and joint-pos-fb would be the same as the f-error, it appears not to be. Can you explain please? http://imagebin.org/72688 Thanks, Richard

Re: [Emc-users] Compact Flash card for Hard Drive

2009-11-23 Thread Steve Blackmore
On Mon, 23 Nov 2009 08:06:18 +, you wrote: You must be very lucky. I have a whole stack of dead drives. When a hard drive fails it is very often catastrophic failure and you lose everything. One day it's working fine, the next day it won't boot. You must have had the same batch of Craptor

Re: [Emc-users] Compact Flash card for Hard Drive

2009-11-23 Thread Dave
I've been a diehard Seagate fan but recently I have heard some people having problems with 1TB Seagate drives.At some point the dropping price and the increasing density is going to become a quality issue - perhaps that day is close? Yes, I lived through the Maxtor problems also. I got a

Re: [Emc-users] Spindle positioning in degrees

2009-11-23 Thread Leonardo Marsaglia
Well, i think i will improve my pid to make it more accurate and then continue with the tests. About the range of the angular axis, if i use the index-enable pulse of the mesa 5i20 encoder module (wich says that the position is reset to zero when an index pulse has ocurred) for reset the counter